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ISBN: 9781472160720
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2026
Publisher: Little Brown
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'I was enraptured by this book. The Body Builders exhibits Albertine Clarke's remarkable gifts - the boldness and precision of her imagination, the breadth of her ethical and intellectual concerns. She is a fearless writer, and I felt a shiver of admiration as I read every page' KATIE KITAMURA'If Philip K. Dick had written The Bell Jar, it may have resembled The Body Builders - at once smooth as android skin and sharp as shards of broken mirror. A stunning and haunting debut' CAMILLE BORDAS'By turns tender and unsettling, The Body Builders is a spare yet profound enquiry into the bonds of family and the limits of the self, and what it means to be connected to other people. Full of stylish and unexpected touches - a debut that marks an important new talent' TASH AW'An exciting and remarkably controlled debut using a brilliant sci-fi concept to tell a story about estrangement, selfhood, and love' CATHERINE LACEYAda lives a solitary life in London. A young adult haunted by her lonely childhood, she spends her days swimming, occasionally visiting her cousin, meeting people for drinks, ignoring invitations.When she meets a man named Atticus by the pool, Ada immediately senses an intimate connection between them, as if they share a life in a way she can't explain. Little by little, Ada's estrangement from all that is familiar to her widens, as though she is seeing her reflection through a mirror, pieces of it falling away. She worries she may be losing her mind.Eventually, Ada's attachment to the world and her b
ISBN: 9781472160720
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2026
Publisher: Little Brown
Description:
'I was enraptured by this book. The Body Builders exhibits Albertine Clarke's remarkable gifts - the boldness and precision of her imagination, the breadth of her ethical and intellectual concerns. She is a fearless writer, and I felt a shiver of admiration as I read every page' KATIE KITAMURA'If Philip K. Dick had written The Bell Jar, it may have resembled The Body Builders - at once smooth as android skin and sharp as shards of broken mirror. A stunning and haunting debut' CAMILLE BORDAS'By turns tender and unsettling, The Body Builders is a spare yet profound enquiry into the bonds of family and the limits of the self, and what it means to be connected to other people. Full of stylish and unexpected touches - a debut that marks an important new talent' TASH AW'An exciting and remarkably controlled debut using a brilliant sci-fi concept to tell a story about estrangement, selfhood, and love' CATHERINE LACEYAda lives a solitary life in London. A young adult haunted by her lonely childhood, she spends her days swimming, occasionally visiting her cousin, meeting people for drinks, ignoring invitations.When she meets a man named Atticus by the pool, Ada immediately senses an intimate connection between them, as if they share a life in a way she can't explain. Little by little, Ada's estrangement from all that is familiar to her widens, as though she is seeing her reflection through a mirror, pieces of it falling away. She worries she may be losing her mind.Eventually, Ada's attachment to the world and her b